Central America

• Haqqani among 50 most central US individuals: US daily (The Pakistan Link)
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:43:38 GMT
  WASHINGTON: Hussain Haqqani, Pakistan ambassador to United States, has been placed among the list of the most important personalities of America, a U.S. daily reported on Tuesday.
  

• Aspyr Media Teams With 1C Company to Bring Five New PC Titles to North America (IGN PC)
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:12:52 GMT
  January 21, 2009 - AUSTIN, TEXAS - January 21, 2009 - Aspyr Media has entered into an agreement with the leading Eastern and Central European publisher 1C Company to release five new PC games in North America.
  

• Opinion Briefing: Latin America’s Leftists (Gallup)
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:21:38 GMT
  It bodes well for Barack Obama’s goal of strengthening ties in Latin America that Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez is no more popular overall in the region than U.S. leadership has been. However, any Latin America policy should recognize that the region’s leftward tilt has the legitimacy of public support.
  

• Barack Obama vows to rebuild America in inaugural address: key points of speech (Daily Telegraph)
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:08:41 GMT
  Barack Obama was sworn in as the first black president of the United States with a vow to rebuild America and tell the world "we are ready to lead once more".
  

• Quake triggered collapse of an ancient Peru society, scientists say (Los Angeles Times)
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:17:51 GMT
  An earthquake 3,800 years ago, followed by heavy rains, led to a chain of events that wiped out rich fishing grounds and farmland that sustained the people of the Supe Valley, north of Lima. Archaeologists generally argue that the Maya civilization and others in South and Central America perished as a result of intense warfare or prodigal consumption of resources.
  

• Brazilian Central Bank May Cut Interest Rate to Stem Recession (Bloomberg)
  Wed, 21 Jan 2009 02:34:55 GMT
  Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s central bank will probably cut its benchmark interest rate today for the first time in 16 months in a bid to safeguard Latin America’s biggest economy from the deepening global recession.
  

• Preserving history; On historic Inauguration Day, Central Oregonians save campaign memories (The Bulletin)
  Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:13:10 GMT
  With the inauguration of President Barack Obama today, many people are not only rejoicing the victory of America’s first African-American president, but they’re also collecting memorabilia, hoping that some day their Obama collections may be worth something.Many local framing shops have been inundated with Obama collectors coming in with front pages of newspapers and magazine covers.
  

• More-Reflective Crops May Have Cooling Effect (New York Times)
  Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:27:33 GMT
  Scientists suggest that by planting certain crop varieties, summertime cooling could be obtained across central North America and a wide band of Europe and Asia.
  

• Brazil Central Bank May Cut Rate on Stalled Economy: Week Ahead (Bloomberg)
  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:05:05 GMT
  Jan. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s central bank will probably cut its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 16 months this week to bolster the economy.
  

• How America Dreamed Itself Into Being (New York Times)
  Mon, 19 Jan 2009 05:52:16 GMT
  There is no disguising that this program was made for a British audience, and that it was made specifically for a 2008 British audience.
  

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